Practical Strategies for Regulating Brains

Format

Individual Presentation

First Presenter's Institution

NeuroLogic® by Lakeside

First Presenter’s Email Address

kathyv@lakeside.net

First Presenter's Brief Biography

Kathy has been working in the field of education for over 40 years as a teacher, counselor, and administrator and has been consulting and training school personnel for the past 20 years. She currently is Executive Vice President of Lakeside and works part time as a professor in Eastern University’s graduate school counseling department. In addition to being a Licensed Psychologist, Kathy has been trained by the ChildTrauma Academy in the Neurosequential Model of both Therapeutics and Education. She has presented at regional, state, national, and international conferences. Kathy has published a curriculum for teaching trauma-informed principles to students.

Location

Session Two

Strand #1

Heart: Social & Emotional Skills

Strand #2

Health: Mental & Physical Health

Relevance

This applies to Head, Heart, Hands, and Health- but Heart and Health stand out as teaching this information to students will help improve social and emotional skills by regulating the brain from the bottom up. Students knowing this information can have a significant impact on physical and mental health as well as on school culture.

Brief Program Description

Strategies for regulation help everyone. Come and learn basic information about each brain region along with various interventions that work specifically for that region. By choosing interventions, targeted by brain region, you will observe many more academic, emotional, and behavioral successes.

Summary

This session will cover the impact that adversity and stress have on the brain and the importance of activating and regulating all regions of the brain in order for children to learn and develop.

Time will be spent talking about the stress response and how for most children who have experienced early childhood adversity, this response is easily triggered. Strategies for helping students and ourselves regulate and calm this stress response will be discussed and strategies that target each brain region will be shared.

These will include, music, furniture, movement, sensory interventions, fidgets, activities, student curriculum, and service dogs. By choosing appropriate interventions, targeted at the brain region your students are operating from, you will observe many more academic, emotional, and behavioral successes, Lastly, I will share examples of how we transformed our schools and what we have seen in the many schools we have trained. Participants will leave with tangible interventions and strategies they can implement immediately.

Evidence

Besides applying all these principles in our four schools and seeing excellent results, we have also seen them change other schools we are training and coaching.

Below are some references that this work is based on:

Cox, A, Perry, B.D., and Frederico, M. (2021) Resourcing the System and Enhancing Relationships: Pathways to Positive Outcomes for Children Impacted by Abuse and Neglect. Child Welfare, Vol. 98, No. 6

Perry, B.D. and Szalavitz, M. (2017). The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook. New York, NY: Basic Books.

Harris, N.B. (2018). The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Van de Kolk, B.A. (2014) The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma. New York, NY: Penguin Books.

Learning Objective 1

describe the impact of stress and adversity on the brain

Learning Objective 2

identify strategies that work to regulate each region of the brain

Learning Objective 3

choose strategies to regulate their own and their students brains

Keyword Descriptors

brain-based, stress, regulation, trauma, hope, empowerment, self-care, coregulation

Presentation Year

2024

Start Date

3-4-2024 11:30 AM

End Date

3-4-2024 1:00 PM

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Practical Strategies for Regulating Brains

Session Two

Strategies for regulation help everyone. Come and learn basic information about each brain region along with various interventions that work specifically for that region. By choosing interventions, targeted by brain region, you will observe many more academic, emotional, and behavioral successes.